A STUPID CRAZE
PLATE-GLASS SCRATCHER AT WORK, Perhaps ono of tho most stupid and harmfully aimless crazes , which • aft'ect somo cranks is that which moans tho prac tical destruction of plate-glass .windows-in shops by means of marking them with either a diamond point or a gloss-ctitter of somo description.- For the past few. days a pci'6ott afflicted With this curious habit has been at work in Courtonay Place, Cuba Street, and. Majoribanks Street. About a fortnight ago Mr. J'. Goer, bootmaker, and salesman, of Majoribanks Strcolvwho recently had the whole of his 6hop front brought up-to-date, had his ■window shockingly criss-crossed and lined with a diamond or cutter. Since then tho plate-glass windows of Messrs. Hnllowell (grocer), Sample (diaper and clothier), Palliser (chemist), and Kuch and Co. (pork butchers) havo wiffcred,. The, lastmentioned firm's window was'very badly marked, and will cither have tt> be inverted of replaced. , Tfe- Aro House, in Cuba Street,, also suffered recently ..from tho samo cause, ,:, . '-. , It may bo remembered that about three years ago a nlaii was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to thrco years' imprisonment for cutting shop-windows. i-■•■•■'■■
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 6
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184A STUPID CRAZE Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 6
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